Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b86d5bd41d64d15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-08-16 06:04:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 948fcd0322d6a27e7975cd4ca28df60b SHA-1: 052e67d043f0ba529cfc6eb8d7a2481fae1bcb06 SHA-256: 2b86d5bd41d64d15182aefdb4a0252cb44b625b947827e92aacafa36187643a0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161030d9b9b31b---jugogologumamo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca9e79116f2674e74ff261f6f35fc0da/gadixikudefovuzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57365462298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/70719347133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0e3407611---midanaganaguparalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/768c858e39ba5ba97379f6813937330d/27484408090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d865558177b756f703d955f7fa4c044b/popil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paeonia.ch/userfiles/files/naneguturerixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/ganidabise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/bozorufudanat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everettsbarbque.com/clients/b/b0/b0b566c85bab127526a414587b81487f/File/82670001869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oliogalanis.com/file/xufazigufakoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34bc75baf78412aee3553606694e1285/19868109188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2213ee33be937906fb83f6bb9d06625b/rozopulozofigof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.org/files/tukaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclambaohiem24h.com/upload/files/kavovolufelonedikun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmresidences.com/images/bulk_images/files/3225681987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/9923923071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ovv75r5rj1i3624u3elt5flsa/17848988477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davisfolk.net/clients/1/1f/1f1070e31f35868a9a13f38ee7dc887f/File/luradufagokagafiboxakofek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/60922521531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f506c8929e---pezikipubakonowedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9d94ceb69---javuwasakofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=cellular+respiration+lab+report+course+heroPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011895.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11895 10740 bytes
SHA-256: b32d5cd209f1517632b7d2a401448233e04167fb8e50670023e478090b8854fd
font_01_sfnt_off000130fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001490f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1490F 18420 bytes
SHA-256: e0fdb65c1229ec46a30bc4421ffba35cf1a8793c52c6f8e608c34b6aeddbc408